So far things in München are going well. I now have a German cell phone (still prepaid though, and still no T9 or whatever that evil finish-your-words program is called) and my first contact in the phone is a woman named Kukuly (Mainly because Katherine and Andy don't have working . Kukuly is from Machu Pichu Peru, we met her when she asked Katherine for directions while we were in the subway station. Once she realized we could speak English we struck up a conversation - we all were glad to meet someone who spoke English (though Kukuly would have been even more comfortable in Spanish) and we all are new to München. She is moving up from a small town near the border of Austria and as you, the reader, already know, Katherine, Andy and I have only been here since Tuesday.
Kukuly's main reason for moving to München was to find more people who speak English because she wants her daughter to be able to retain the English she has learned. Her daughter is young enough that she has picked up Spanish and German, without an accent in either language, but because no one speaks English in the small town where they were living she has begun to lose her English speaking ability.
The main reason why I mention Kukuly is because when we asked her why she was in Germany she said that she just wanted to give her daughter the chance to learn more languages and experience different cultures, thereby giving her more opportunity, and I think that is quite remarkable. We didn't have time to ask her some of the other questions we had (like where's the father/husband, how do you pay for all this moving around, and what kind of job do you have to support all the moving?), but the fact remains that this woman has moved all over the world just so her daughter can have a better shot in life. I don't think she would have had that kind of attitude had she been American because I think we Americans always assume that there is no better place than the good ol' U. S. of A. That might very well be true, but I think it's also safe to say Americans have a much narrower outlook on the world than people in other countries.
Ok, enough of the soap-box. We also visited the Allianz Arena today. All you soccer geeks will recognize that as the stadium where FC Bayern München plays it's home games. (Side note: the German First Lieutenant who is assisting us while we are here in München thinks that American Football is much more interesting than Futball/soccer/Fußball, so I don't want to hear anything about my disregard for most things soccer).
When I have more time (probably not until we get into Dresden next week) I will write more. But that wasprobably understood that I would write more when I have more time because, after all, who does things that they don't have time for?
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